Hyphenation of tertiary

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word tertiary? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

ter-tiary

Definitions of tertiary:

1.	From 63 million to 2 million years ago
2.	Coming next after the second and just before the fourth in position

Synonyms of tertiary:

adj	third, 3rd, ordinal
noun	Tertiary, Tertiary period, period, geological period

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.